Picturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection
Masterpiece Gallery Berea, KY, United StatesPicturing Appalachia: Views from the Permanent Collection, located in our Masterpiece Gallery, centers artwork and artifacts that engage with the landscape, labor, craft traditions, and people that have called the Appalachian region home. Well-known artists and photographers including Henry Ossawa Tanner, Doris Ulmann, Walker Evans, and Aaron Siskind are presented alongside lesser known and unrecorded [...]
Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art
Lower Traylor GalleryThe Doris Ulmann Galleries is excited and honored to be the final stop on the tour of the Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art exhibition. Prior to arriving at Berea College, this exhibition of carefully carved and painted wooden sculptures was featured at KMAC Contemporary Art Museum in Louisville and the [...]
Lisa Kriner: To Walk, To Remember, To Record
Upper Traylor GalleryTo Walk, To Remember, To Record, featuring work by Professor of Art Lisa Kriner, explores the act of walking through the landscape, remembering those walks, and recording my experiences of the spaces around me through drawings, embroidery, and handweaving.
Folk Art Painting Workshop with Lonnie & Twyla Money
Doris Ulmann GalleriesLocal folk artists Lonnie and Twyla Money will lead a workshop in which participants will paint their own wooden chicken sculptures like those on view in the exhibition, Lonnie & Twyla Money: 50 Years of Kentucky Folk Art, at the Doris Ulmann Galleries. The workshop will take place in Rogers-Traylor Art Building, room 211, on Friday, October [...]
Marika Christofides: Life Cycles
Lower Traylor GalleryLife Cycles features digital collage-based print works by Oklahoma-based artist Marika Christofides that depict abstracted biomorphic forms in various stages of transformation. Motifs change and replicate across the works in the exhibition, mimicking the stages of an organism’s biological development. The works in Marika Christofides: Life Cycles explore what it means to “become” through a [...]
Artist Talk with Marika Christofides
Lower Traylor GalleryVisiting artist Marika Christofides will give an artist talk coinciding with the opening reception for Marika Christofides: Life Cycles at 4:30 on Wednesday, October 23, in the Lower Traylor Gallery. Christofides works in multiple media - printmaking, collage, and more - to create installations and other works featuring abstracted creatures that investigate, as she says, [...]
Eddy López: verso(s)
Upper Traylor GalleryVerso is the reverse of something, a coin, a painting, a photograph. Verso, in Spanish, is a conjunction of words that make up a poem. Eddy López: verso(s) is a print media exploration on the dangers of nostalgia and representation using photographs and writings from the Nicaraguan revolution and civil war of the 1970s and [...]
Artist Talk with Eddy López
Upper Traylor GalleryPrintmaker Eddy López will give an artist talk coinciding with the opening reception of Eddy López: verso(s) at 12:00pm (noon) on Friday, November 8, in the Upper Traylor Gallery. Born in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, in the midst of the Sandinista revolution, López creates work that combines archives and memories of war into abstractions of vibrant colors, [...]
Relief Printing as Social Practice: Artist Workshop with Eddy López
Rogers-Traylor Art Building Room 211Led by visiting artist Eddy López, participants will be guided in relief printing techniques to create a collaborative, hand-printed letterpress alphabet that will be used to print posters featuring lines of poetry by Central American authors. This workshop is free and open to the public; all supplies are provided. The workshop will take place in [...]
The Illustrated Memoir Project
Tredennick GalleryOn view in the Dorothy Tredennick Student Gallery are memoirs produced as part of The Illustrated Memoir Project, a nonprofit organization based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Illustrated Memoir Project engages refugee and immigrant youth to write and illustrate true stories from their lives. The goal of this project is to foment intellectual self-trust in the [...]